Famous quotes containing the word weaknesses:
“One of the baffling things about life is that the purposes of institutions may be ideal, while their administration, dependent upon the faults and weaknesses of human beings, may be bad.”
—Mary Barnett Gilson (1877–?)
“What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer’s own weaknesses reflected back from others.”
—G.C. (Georg Christoph)
“The Southerner is usually tolerant of those weaknesses that proceed from innocence.”
—Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964)